IEEE Seeks Consensus on Ethernet Transfer Speed Standard

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 20, 2012 @07:04AM from the setting-the-bar dept.

New submitter h2okies writes "CNET's News.com reports that the IEEE will start today to form the new standards for Ethernet and data transfer. 'The standard, to be produced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, will likely reach data-transfer speeds between 400 gigabits per second and 1 terabit per second. For comparison, that latter speed would be enough to copy 20 full-length Blu-ray movies in a second.' The IEEE also reports on how the speed needs of the internet continue to double every year. Of what consequence will this new standard be if the last mile is still stuck on beep & creep?"

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Please use the appropriate units. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-20 07:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

We need this information in Library of Congresses. Or a fraction of Ludicrous Speed.
Re:Hype! by SuricouRaven · 2012-08-20 08:14 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I've only had to impliment a sort myself once. For a dedup program. It needs to sort a list many gigabytes in length, so it's not all going to fit in RAM. I used a modified radix sort. A quicksort would look faster on paper, but with a problem: Non-linear access, which kills performance on spinnydisks.